I am not sure of the percentages in Texas but he only got about 40% of the hispanic vote nationwide. It begs the question "What will the next GOP candidate have to promise to maintain that 40%? Also, does ignoring your base to garner a small percentage of the overall vote mean you are going to win? While Bush alienates millions of GOP voters to gain a tiny amount from the hispanics what does that do to the future of the GOP?
At this point I don't care anymore. The GOP is not a conservative party by any stretch of the imagination.
Bush has disappointed on other issues as well. If there was a better candidate then Bush I would have voted for him. But Bush knew that idea of either a Kerry or Gore presidency would be abhorrent to people like me and he banked on that.
Like many others I voted against Gore and Kerry not necessarily for Bush.
Should have read as follows:
The GOP President is not a conservative party by any stretch of the imagination.
The President is indeed no kind of conservative...not no way, not no how. The next Bot that jumps into to decry this statement needs to explain the ignomiminous failure to veto a single solitary unconstitutional bill or excessive spending authorization. Or explain how the only two times he has even threatened to use his veto...it was wielded expressly to undermine Conservatives worried about national defense preparedness [Duncan Hunter's bill] and port security! [Peter King's bill]
The President is not the Party if we stand up to him...and take it back!
And that is our ONLY option. Third-Party status is oblivion. Ask Pat Buchanan, or the Constitution Party. Frankly, all conservatives of all walks should all gang up and do a PreCaucus Caucus to restore the Republican Wing of the Republican Party to primacy. This would be a last gasp of patriotism. Akin to the time three or four hundred years ago the English, pushed to the wall by the power-spawned rule of the Star Chamber courts, pushed back and recaptured their rights. We need to recapture the Republican party.
There are solid Congressmen. There are even some solid Sentators (albeit a lot fewer).
We need to thwart the RINO's interference from the White House with the State Selection process. We need to take the RNC away from this President. We need to make damn sure he has NOTHING to do or SAY about the replacement nominee we select. No more slander from him...or his proxies... will be tolerated.
We need to restore the Party. And then enforce Constitutional values and principles on every US Senator and Congressmen ...no more Chris Shays. No more John McCains. No more Bushes. And the judges pushing for unconstitutional perversions of law...need to be promptly impeached and convicted. And censure for the RATs en masse.
If we don't stand up for the Constitution...then we stand for nothing but raw political power. And I believe we need to be adhering to Barry Goldwater's rhetoric in that regard.